The Appeal of Jesus

John Howard Yoder penned these words in 1972. But they are as true now as they were then. My experience in working with college students is that young people inclined toward social justice and human rights find Jesus powerfully attractive.

It may be a meaningless coincidence that some young men wear their hair and their feet like the Good Shepherd of the Standard Press Sunday school posters; but there is certainly no randomness to their claim that Jesus was, like themselves, a social critic and an agitator, a drop-out from the social climb, and the spokesman of a counterculture (The Politics of Jesus, pg. 1)